Organisation / Hub: School of Wise Innovation

Contact Person: Andrew Dunn

Link: https://wiseinnovation.school/

Contact Email: andrewmurraydunn@gmail.com

Description

Our mission is to learn, practice, teach & cultivate holistic innovation culture. We envision a world in which visionaries, their processes, and their creations exist in healthier relationship with the web of life. Learn more at https://wiseinnovation.school/

Learnings

What is wise innovatoin?
contextual inquiry and conversation > totalizing definition
practices restraint
aligned with natural ecological cycles
held in web of accountability
seeks to understand
guided by variety of perspectives & ways of knowing
paradox aware
sensitive
right speed for right context
humble
reciprocal relationships w/all stakeholders
integrates lessons from history (personal & collective)
anticipates & mitigates foolishness & capture
in partnership with the more than human world
rhythmic rest
acting out of service
teams practicing
wisdom together
self-knowledge of motivations, blind spots, limits
readiness sized: matches power with maturity
seeing in root causes, systems, & interconnected complexity
hemisphere balanced

Upon launch in December 2023, we set out to answer three main questions, and found ample guidance:

Q1: The process for bringing ideas into the world is begging for reimagination. How do we innovate in ways that donʼt reproduce the conditions that nourish the tendencies that got us here?
-Rhythmic rest calendar to make wise choices
-Partnership with the natural world, youth, elders
-Regular embodied practice, storytelling, and service in community – to shift worldview, sensemaking and choicemaking

Q2: Human development is the elephant in the room when it comes to calls for responsible innovation. What is the adequate training and initiation programming for innovators to be fit to wield powerful innovations?
-Context-dependent tempering, guidance, time, restraint, alignment with natural cycles
-Eyes on: nature-based vision quests held in builder-relevant integration container

Q3: This emergent ecosystem lacks a coherent vision, infrastructure, and resourcing. What is this moment calling for?
-Physical and digital spaces to weave the web
-Accountability to practice what we preach
-Creative forms of resource sharing